Professional reviewers get most of the perks but there's one reserved for those of
us who pay for our tickets: The right to make a run for it at the halfway point
without feeling guilty about it*. So I can't call this a review of the whole of
Molière's
The Miser, loosely adapted by Sean Foley and Phil Porter, and
directed by the former. I didn't actually hate it - if I had I'd probably have stuck
it out so I could rip it to shreds with all the information to hand - I just knew by
the interval that there was little to be gained from sticking around. In a
production that appears to have been cast by watching a week's worth of repeats on
Dave, Griff Rhys Jones plays the titular Harpagon, whose children won't see a penny
while he's alive, which is a problem as they've both fallen for poorer people:
Daughter Elise (Katy Wix) loves butler Valere (Matthew Horne) and son Cleante (Ryan
Gage) their neighbour Marianne (Ellie White.)
